Michael Bay’s ‘Six Underground’ Will Be Netflix’s Most Expensive Original Film Yet
After spending $90 million on David Ayer’s gritty fantasy filmBright, Netflix is upping the ante withSix Underground. Earlier this week, wewroteabout how directorMichael Bayand starRyan Reynoldswere teaming up with the streaming service for a new action thriller, and now a report says the film’s budget will make it Netflix’s most expensive movie yet.
New details about Michael Bay’s Netflix movie have quietly emerged atDeadline, where a report says the budget forSix Undergroundwill be in the $150 million range. That’s far more than they spent onBright, which was Netflix’s previous record holder for their most expensive original film. It also currently outranks Martin Scorsese’s highly-anticipated original movieThe Irishman, which,last we heard, had a budget of $140 million (though some reports claimed that budget was still “climbing” beyond that number, so we’ll have to wait until that’s done to fully assess).
Six Underground, which was written byDeadpoolandDeadpool 2writersRhett ReeseandPaul Wernick, centers on “six billionaires who fake their own deaths and form an elite team to take down bad guys.” The plan is for this film to be the start of a new franchise, and Bay’s slick directorial style seems like an excellent fit for a story from a pair of writers who seemingly love raunchy humor and quippy jokes. Throw Reynolds in the mix as a star, and it sounds like they’ve got a hit on their hands. (Or at least whatever Netflix would consider a hit, since they don’t release their internal viewing numbers, so we’ll neverreallyknow how many people even watch this thing.)
With the upcomingThe Irishmanand last year’sBrightsitting at the top of the list of Netflix’s most expensive original films thus far, it’s worth taking a look at some of the streamer’s other high-profile original movies and see what they reportedly spent on them:
